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As the hemocyanin active site contains a binuclear metal centre, recent studies have been carried out to investigate the contribution of each metal ion.
A ring of coastal mountains surround low plains at the centre of the island.
Shobdon Aerodrome near Leominster is a centre for general aviation and gliding.
This is the kind that marks the centre of the road, with one pair of cat's eyes showing in each direction.
Copernicus placed the Sun at the centre of the Universe, exempt from any sort of lation.
Its historic importance is due to its role as the centre of the iron industry in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution.
The centre of the range comprises a Devonian granite outcrop surrounded by Silurian and Devonian andesite lava flows on each side.
The most significant centre of population is London, at the head of the Thames estuary, one of the largest cities in the world.
The plane through the centre of the Earth and perpendicular to the rotation axis intersects the surface at a great circle called the Equator.
The geocentric latitude is the angle between the equatorial plane and the radius from the centre to a point on the surface.
The decision was overturned, however, as it was felt to have outstanding importance as the centre of the pottery industry.
The grant of the honour on the grounds of being a large industrial town, rather than a diocesan centre, was unprecedented.
Large parts of the city centre were also cleared to make way for a new system of roads.
As such, much of the city is built on hillsides with views into the city centre or out to the countryside.
Sheffield is a major retail centre, and is home to many High Street and department stores as well as designer boutiques.
The main shopping areas in the city centre are on The Moor precinct, Fargate, Orchard Square and the Devonshire Quarter.
Department stores in the city centre include John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, Atkinsons and Debenhams.
Hillsborough Walled Garden is located in Hillsborough Park, to the north west of the city centre.
Sheffield has five cinema complexes, three of which are in the city centre and a further two in the Lower Don Valley.
A Curzon Cinemas complex has also recently opened in the city centre, close to the existing Odeon complex.
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Leeds city centre is connected to the National Rail network at Leeds railway station.
Central Bradford rose to prominence during the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool.
Everything had a modern look, and a large space in the centre was hardly less handsome than a London square.
The geographical centre of Nottingham is usually defined as the Old Market Square.
The Exchange Arcade, on the ground floor, is an upmarket shopping centre containing boutiques.
The National Ice Centre, opened by Jane Torvill, is a national centre for ice sports.
The city had been the centre of local pottery production for more than 700 years, including pottery known as Babylon ware.
Plans were drawn up to make Ripon a centre of education, a University of the North, to rival Oxford and Cambridge.
Truro grew as a centre of trade from its port and then as a stannary town for the tin mining industry.
Throughout those prosperous times Truro remained a social centre, and many notable people hailed from it.
Other sporting amenities include a leisure centre, golf course, and tennis courts.
When the Cornwall Railway connected the line to Plymouth, their trains ran to the present station above the city centre.
It is a transport hub, and a centre for culture in the county, with a theatre, museum and art galleries.
Between 1250 and 1262, the Rape of Chichester was created from the western half of Arundel rape, with the castle as its administrative centre.
Peake attended the Chichester High School for Boys, which now has a Sports and Conference centre named after him and opened by him.
Leeds is now and the largest centre for legal services in the UK after London.
Filton is the main research and development and support centre for all Airbus wings, fuel systems and landing gear integration.
In the UK, its most important facility is on the Isle of Wight, where it has a carbon composite centre of excellence.
In the 19th century it became the international centre for the needle and fishing tackle industry.
Since June 2013 the swimming pool at Abbey Stadium leisure centre has been heated using waste heat diverted from Redditch Crematorium.
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Kingfisher Shopping Centre was opened in 1976 by the then Prime Minister James Callaghan and now forms the town's primary retail centre.
Some buildings have been taken over and now make the old part of Enfield Industrial Estate close to the town centre on Hewell Road.
Preston was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, becoming a densely populated engineering centre, with large industrial plants.
During the Roman period, Roman roads passed close to what is now the centre of Preston.
The late 1960s saw the completion of Ringway, a bypass around the town centre, as well as a new bus station.
The site's main purpose is as a call centre for the broadband and landline services provider TalkTalk as well as LLU business Opal Telecom.
Residential developments were particularly popular with new apartments planned in and around the city centre.
With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, Derby became a centre of the British rail industry.
However, Derby remained a major rail manufacturing centre, second only to Crewe and Wolverton.
Derby has also become a significant cultural centre for the deaf community in Britain.
By traditional definitions, Derby is the county town of Derbyshire, although Derbyshire's administrative centre has in recent years been Matlock.
The silver and blue wave across the centre of the shield represents the River Wye.
Local industrialist Francis Ley introduced baseball to the town in the late 19th century, and built a stadium near the town centre.
Darley and Derwent Parks lie immediately north of the city centre and are home to owls, kingfishers and other wildlife.
These are the Cathedral Quarter, the St Peters Quarter and the Intu Derby shopping centre.
In the centre itself, a combination of high rents and rising rates have made things difficult for smaller traders.
The Friar Gate area contains clubs and bars, making it the centre of Derby's nightlife.
It has two main campuses the Joseph Wright Centre in the centre of Derby, where its A Level courses are based.
The city's main station, Portsmouth and Southsea railway station, is located in the city centre, close to the Guildhall and the Civic Offices.
In the city centre, shopping is centred on Commercial Road and the 1980s Cascades Shopping Centre, with over 100 high street shops between them.
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The pier was originally used as a terminal for ferries travelling to the Isle of Wight, but it was soon redeveloped as a centre of entertainment.
On 6 July 2012, Edinburgh University announced a new centre named after Professor Higgs to support future research in theoretical physics.
Completed in 2016, it is the largest centre for biomedical research and innovation in Europe.
He maintained a pew at St Paul's Church, Birmingham, a centre of musical excellence.
They were usually built as centre pieces in aristocratic planned landscapes.
In the 1890s and 1900s heavy engineering industries began to set up in the town, and Rugby rapidly grew into a major industrial centre.
The town centre is mostly Victorian and early 20th century, however a few much older buildings survive, along with some more modern developments.
Rugby town centre includes numerous restaurants of various kinds and many pubs.
The Metro's control centre is based at South Gosforth, in a building alongside South Gosforth Metro station.
The site's security is provided by CCTV and fence guarding and is under control of security personnel housed in the operations centre.
An extension of Line One into Birmingham city centre has been approved, with an extension through Wolverhampton city centre also approved.
The plan entailed southbound trams from Wolverhampton first going around the city centre to the railway station.
If the standard track centre is changed, it can take a very long time for most or all tracks to be brought into line.
In the United Kingdom, the centre of narrow gauge construction was North Wales.
Some of the plans seem to show terminal 5, or part of it, kept as a shopping centre.
Local buses connect Luton Airport with Luton town centre and other nearby places.
In each town, a main hall was in the centre, provided with a central hearth.
Liverpool's Chinatown is situated around the Berry Street and Duke Street area in the city centre.
There are also a number of railway lines crossing over the area, which centre at Shrewsbury.
Shrewsbury is becoming a centre for distribution and warehousing, as it is located on a nodal point of the regional road network.
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It is composed of a stair turret at each extremity, with two niched buttresses nearer the centre line supporting the large central triple window.
The county town is Lancaster although the county's administrative centre is Preston.
Blackpool was a centre for tourism for the inhabitants of Lancashire's mill towns, particularly during wakes week.
Lancashire in the 19th century was a major centre of economic activity, and hence of wealth.
The hilltop located outside Verulamium eventually became a cult centre devoted to Alban.
Goindval became an important centre for Sikhism during the guruship of Guru Amar Das.
The meditation deity is in the centre, sometimes surrounded by protective gods and goddesses.
Another school, Hassanil Bolkiah Boys' Arabic Secondary School, is a government sixth form centre for students in the specialised Arabic stream.
Nearly a century later, the university was at the centre of a Protestant schism.
The chapel is in the centre block of the west wing of the original Guy's Hospital.
The institute is the largest centre for research and postgraduate education in psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience in Europe.
It is a public science centre where 'art and science collide', and is a part of Global Science Gallery Network.
The original can be found on display in the Macadam Building in the Students' Union student centre at the Strand Campus.
The medical centre is under the direct supervision of the school doctor who is available on the Hill every day for consultation.
The elevation on to Abbey Church Yard has a centre piece of four engaged Corinthian columns with entablatures and pediment.
In 2016 planning permission was received for a new learning centre aimed at school children and linked to the baths by a tunnel.
In addition, a bus gate scheme in Northgate aims to reduce private car use in the city centre.
Queen Victoria made a few minor changes to the castle, which became the centre for royal entertainment for much of her reign.
At the heart of Windsor Castle is the Middle Ward, a bailey formed around the motte or artificial hill in the centre of the ward.
The statue of Charles II was moved from the centre of the Upper Ward to the base of the motte.
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The project will be completed at the end of 2018, and will include a visitor centre and a dedicated learning centre.
Each cathedral also serves as a regional centre and a focus of regional pride and affection.
They allowed the garrison to control the surrounding area, and formed a centre of administration, providing the lord with a place to hold court.
Due to the lord's presence in a castle, it was a centre of administration from where he controlled his lands.
Patan Durbar Square is situated at the centre of the city of Lalitpur in Nepal.
The height was usually highest in the centre, and the Baroque emphasis on corner pavilions often found on the continent generally avoided.
The centre contains art studios and a cafe, and hosts special events, including craft demonstrations and exhibitions.
The designation is hardly exact, for the centre was at Toulouse and in the neighbouring districts.
Stephen's, is the religious centre for Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.
The city has two universities, Coventry University in the city centre and the University of Warwick on the southern outskirts.
On 16 December 2007, IKEA's first city centre store in the UK was opened, in Coventry.
Woodlands School in Coventry is now also a sports college, which has a newly built sport centre.
Pool Meadow Bus Station is the main bus and coach interchange in the city centre.
On 12 March 2008, an unexploded Second World War Luftwaffe bomb was discovered in Coventry's city centre.
The Royal Lodge was built in the centre of the park as the Deputy Ranger's house.
Balti houses were originally clustered along and behind the main road between Sparkhill and Moseley, to the south of Birmingham city centre.
The town's connection with the brewing industry is celebrated by the sculpture of the Burton Cooper in the shopping centre.
The site is open to the public and has a visitor centre with a small museum of objects associated with the caves, including a stuffed cave hyena.
The Roman civitas was the administrative centre of the Brigantes tribe, the largest and most northerly tribe in Roman Britain.
Paris was the main centre of ivory workshops, and exported to most of northern Europe, though Italy also had a considerable production.
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By 1515, Hans and Ambrosius had moved as journeymen painters to the city of Basel, a centre of learning and the printing trade.
Basel, where Martin Luther's major works were published, became the main centre for the transmission of Reformation ideas.
During the English Civil War Dobson was based at the Royalist centre of Oxford and painted many leading Cavaliers.
The York school was renowned as a centre of learning in the liberal arts, literature, and science, as well as in religious matters.
Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape.
There was a big black wrought-iron double bed, with a mosaic in the centre of the bedhead.
Two short pitches up a chimney-crack are followed by a traverse right to the centre of the buttress.
That fellow's new limousine is the centre of attention, as everyone stops to stare at it.
As a test for centrophobia, we measured the time fish spent in the centre of the tank in the horizontal plane.
Four minutes of stoppage time were virtually up when Ricketts climbed to head in the equaliser from substitute Nicky Southall's centre.
What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens.
A spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners.
Actually, with a better centre back who won't be pushed around by Drogba's douchebaggery in the box, Bayern would have a better chance.
At the centre of Muhammad's achievement was the extraordinary poetry which enshrined his revelations.
The church, which is situated near the centre of the town, exteriorly resembles a huge Dutch barn.
An extrasystole originating at the rhythmic centre is thus followed by a returning cycle of natural length.
There was about a stone of potatoes in the centre of the table, bursting flourily through their skins, the steam rising from them.
The story had at its centre a godfatherlike figure of larger-than-life stature, and all the elements of a tragic drama.
The Courtauld Institute of Art is a leading centre for the teaching of the history of art.
The geographical centre of Scotland lies a few miles from the village of Newtonmore in Badenoch.
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Oceanic debris tends to accumulate at the centre of gyres and coastlines, frequently washing aground where it is known as beach litter.
In 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca for Portugal, then the centre of Asian trade.
The European economic centre shifted from the Mediterranean to Western Europe.
The effect of this can be seen below when comparing London Heathrow, 15 miles west of London, with the London Weather Centre, in the city centre.
Some areas of the city, particularly those just west of the centre, are characterised by white stucco or whitewashed buildings.
London took over as a major financial centre shortly after 1795 when the Dutch Republic collapsed before the Napoleonic armies.
By the end of the 19th century, Britain was the wealthiest of all nations, and London a leading financial centre.
London is the centre of the National Rail network, with 70 percent of rail journeys starting or ending in London.
In 2003, a congestion charge was introduced to reduce traffic volumes in the city centre.
London is a major centre for television production, with studios including BBC Television Centre, The Fountain Studios and The London Studios.
Bletchley Park in north Buckinghamshire was the principal Allied centre for codebreaking.
John Lewis and River Island have their large Magna Park distribution centre to the east on the A421 in Wavendon.
The A591 road runs from Kendal to the centre of the county connecting Lake District settlements like Windermere, Ambleside and Keswick.
Further north on the estate next to the A5208 is QVC UK's distribution centre, with all three in Kirkby.
By 1790 Sunderland was building around nineteen ships per year making it the most important shipbuilding centre in the United Kingdom.
The City of Leeds is Yorkshire's largest city and is the main centre of trade and commerce.
However, while Sheffield's heavy industry has declined, the region has reinvented itself as a centre for specialist engineering.
This trunk road passes through the centre of the county and is the prime route from London to Edinburgh.
She was the centre of a very brilliant group, a most beautiful woman holding court, as was only right and proper, among her admirers.
Both Benedict Biscop and Ceolfrith had acquired books from the Continent, and in Bede's day the monastery was a renowned centre of learning.
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The product of two homotheties with the same centre is a homothety with that centre.
They were arranged in a circle between the two rings of sarsens and in an oval at the centre of the inner ring.
The latter must have made an impression on the Britons when they were displayed in the large tribal centre of Camulodunum, modern day Colchester.
In the Roman period, Eboracum was the major manufacturing centre for Whitby Jet.
The city, through its location on the River Ouse and its proximity to the Great North Road became a major trading centre.
York's centre is enclosed by the city's medieval walls, which are a popular walk.
York has been a major railway centre since the first line arrived in 1839 at the beginning of the railway age.
In June 2015 York CAMRA listed 101 pubs on its map of the city centre, some of which are hundreds of years old.
It provides the only permanent exhibition centre in the world devoted to Saint Patrick.
Lewes was an important centre of a herring industry and had to pay a rent of 38,500 herrings for its sea fisheries.
At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was the network of burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.
Lombard Salerno was a centre of ivorywork in the 11th century and this continued under Norman domination.
A new visitor centre at Lincoln Castle will also be opened for the anniversary.
Edmund's second marriage to Blanche of Artois, the widow of the King of Navarre, placed him at the centre of the European aristocracy.
In the centre of Malacca, Malaysia, the Stadthuys Building and Christ Church still stand as a reminder of Dutch occupation.
Under the leadership of John Calvin, Geneva became the chief international centre of Reformed Protestantism and Latin biblical scholarship.
In this technique, the isocentre was placed on the centre of the PTV boost.
How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue?
For this William needed funding by the city of Amsterdam, then the world's main financial centre.
However, this period of decline coincided with the rise of city as the financial centre of the region.
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A large part of the historic city centre was destroyed, including 165 warehouses, 200 business premises, and 150 offices.
In 2012, plans were approved to introduce a water taxi service between Manchester city centre and MediaCityUK at Salford Quays.
Public houses in the Canal Street area have had a gay clientele since at least 1940, and now form the centre of Manchester's gay community.
It is free in the city centre on Thursdays and Fridays, but paid for in the suburbs.
In addition, the British Council maintains a metropolitan centre in Manchester.
Within a century of the charter Birmingham had grown into a prosperous urban centre of merchants and craftsmen.
Birmingham's role as a manufacturing and printing centre has supported strong local traditions of graphic design and product design.
Outside the city centre is Star City entertainment complex on the former site of Nechells Power Station.
Antwerp regained access to the sea and grew quickly as a major port and business centre.
Nelson often found himself received as a hero and was the centre of celebrations and events held in his honour.
Ney therefore tried to break Wellesley's centre with a cavalry charge alone.
Wellesley's centre was now on the verge of collapse and wide open to an attack from the French.
Cardiff was bombed on three nights, Portsmouth centre was devastated by five raids.
The second major function of the Empire made London the financial centre of the system.
When weak monarchs governed, parliament often became the centre of opposition against them.
It claims to be the largest aerosol factory in the world, and has their research centre, and makes Impulse, Lynx, Dove and Sure.
Northern Foods are now based at Trinity Business Park off the A636 south of Wakefield town centre.
The centre of the East Midlands area lies roughly between Bingham, Nottinghamshire and Bottesford, Leicestershire.
The geographical centre of England lies in Higham on the Hill in west Leicestershire, close to the boundary between the East and West Midlands.
Experian have their large data centre at Fairham House south of Ruddington, with two others in Texas and Brazil.
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Entalysis, a business performance management software company, is located in Burton upon Trent town centre.
Barclaycard is headquartered in Northampton, and Nationwide has a large administrative centre at Moulton Park.
The region's Manufacturing Advisory Service is on Wolverhampton Science Park off the A449 north of the city centre.
Marston's is headquartered west of the ring road, on the A41, and have the Park Brewery on the A4124, east of the city centre.
The BBC has its engineering training centre at Wood Norton, Worcestershire, off the A44 north of Evesham in Norton and Lenchwick.
This site now claims to be the largest software development centre in Europe.
During this period Bristol also became a centre of shipbuilding and manufacturing.
The imperial court was the centre of a revival of classical learning, a process known as the Macedonian Renaissance.
The only part of Greater London outside this motorway ring is North Ockendon, the furthest land unit from its centre.
Throughout the 19th century, the City was the world's primary business centre, and it continues to be a major meeting point for businesses.
By the late 16th century, London increasingly became a major centre for banking, international trade and commerce.
Later the church replaced the manor court as the rural administrative centre, and levied a local tax on produce known as a tithe.
Local authorities in both France and the UK called for the closure of Sangatte, and Eurotunnel twice sought an injunction against the centre.
At the end of 2002, the Sangatte centre was closed after the UK agreed to take some of its refugees.
Much of the immediate reconstruction of the city centre has been deeply unpopular.
In the arts, Liverpool was home to the first lending library, athenaeum society, arts centre and public art conservation centre.
In recent years, many parts of Liverpool's city centre have undergone significant redevelopment and regeneration after years of decline.
In 2007, a new cruise terminal was opened in Liverpool, located alongside the Pier Head in the city centre.
A night bus service also operates on Saturdays providing services from the city centre across Liverpool and Merseyside.
The city has one further education colleges, Liverpool Community College in the city centre.
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There is also a King David Kindergarten, featured in the community centre of Harold House.
The city grew as an important centre for the wool trade in the 14th century, and later became a major coal mining area.
Another green space in Newcastle is the Town Moor, lying immediately north of the city centre.
The UK's first biotechnology village, the Centre for Life is located in the city centre close to the Central railway station.
The Central Business District is in the centre of the city, bounded by Haymarket, Central Station and the Quayside areas.
The wing of the centre, including the undercover Green Market, near Grainger Street was demolished in 2007 so that the area could be redeveloped.
Outside the city centre, the largest suburban shopping areas are Gosforth and Byker.
Close to Newcastle, the largest indoor shopping centre in Europe, the MetroCentre, is located in Gateshead.
There are concentrations of pubs, bars and nightclubs around the Bigg Market and the Quayside area of the city centre.
In January or February, Newcastle's Chinatown is at the centre of a carnival of colour and noise as the city celebrates the Chinese New Year.
On 14 October 2005 the 2,000 capacity O2 Academy Newcastle opened in the city centre.
It is connected to the city via the Metro Light Rail system and a journey into Newcastle city centre takes approximately 20 minutes.
The city's other mainline station, Manors, is to the east of the city centre.
The Green line starts at Newcastle Airport, goes through the city centre and into Sunderland, terminating at South Hylton.
One of the largest evangelical Anglican churches in the UK is Jesmond Parish Church, situated a little to the north of the city centre.
Newcastle was a prominent centre of the Plymouth Brethren movement up to the 1950s, and some small congregations still function.
Newcastle is one of the first in the UK to have its city centre covered by wireless internet access.
These provided a firm base for a trading centre at the lowest possible point on the Thames.
In 1999 a sustainable National Trust visitor centre was built in the area.
And the thin muslin that made up his angarkha came all the way from Dacca in Bengal, which was the most famous centre of muslin weaving in the eighteenth-century world.
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The unserviceable Sea Hurricane airframe on board was placed on deck for blast trials in a low angle shoot and sustained no damage while in the centre of the deck.
Altogether, 130 German bombers destroyed the historical centre of London.
After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.
At the northern end trams leave the railway trackbed at Priestfield to run along Bilston Road to St Georges terminus in Bilston Street, Wolverhampton city centre.
Check-in ran like clockwork and after unpacking, we bimbled off to the cycle centre, hired two bikes and a kiddy trailer for the boys and set off to get our bearings.
Derby was for many years a railway centre, being the former headquarters of the Midland Railway, with both British Rail workshops and research facilities in the town.
If a point be taken within a circle, and more than two equal straight lines fall from the point on the circle, the point taken is the centre of the circle.
The kindergarchy was alive and well in the Carlyle household, with Alice centre stage and Mum and Dad both fretting about being reduced to the role of indentured servants.
The city is favoured as a site for a national railway centre.
Antwerp was world-famous for its harpsichords, but it was also a centre, in the 16th century, where citterns, lutes, viols and later violins were constructed with skill.
Although HMCTS and NOMS are working under different terms and conditions, they are now managed together and HR is dealt with by one Shared Service centre.
Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.
From the centre of each side of this tree-bound square ran avenues east, west, and south into the wide expanse of corn-land and coomb to the distance of a mile or so.
The VoiceBox, a converted former industrial building near the centre of Derby, is a performance, teaching and rehearsal venue for a range of vocal and choral music.
All jurisdictions have their own prison systems, although the Australia Capital Territory has only one remand centre and one periodic detention centre.
The Sheffield Parkway connects the city centre with the motorways.
A link road, opened in February 2016, connects Doncaster Sheffield Airport to the M18 motorway, reducing the journey time from Sheffield city centre from 40 to 25 minutes.
I heard Nick got duffed up behind the shopping centre at the weekend.
While the earthdin is but a seismal shock of a rheumatic condition in the diversified stratas seeking new positions to reach their centre of gravity.
The original proposal was to run into the former Wolverhampton Low Level station, giving the terminus a link to the very centre of Wolverhampton, but this was abandoned.
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Topps Tiles are on Grove Park in Enderby, with the national distribution centre of British Gas, the largest warehouse of gas spare parts in Europe, next door.
King's claims to be the largest centre for healthcare education in Europe.
The River Frome feeds into the Avon in the centre of Bristol.
Some of Peters's filmset designs, together with those for the store and for an ideal art centre, were put on display at Bullock's Wilshire not long after the store's opening.
A new visitor centre designed by Glenn Howells Architects and Buro Happold was opened in June 2006, and was nominated for the 2007 Stirling Prize.
I later learn this fore-signal is called an aura, and that what I am experiencing is a form of epilepsy, a small 'focal' fit, affecting a speech centre.
West Street, running through the heart of the West End district of the city centre, is home to many pubs, bars and clubs and attracts many student visitors.
The development was controversial and local opponents accuse it of drawing trade away from the older parts of the city centre where independent shops are located.
The large apses contain images in an iconic style, which gradually developed to centre on a large figure, or later just the bust, of Christ, or later of the Virgin Mary.
By the 15th century Nottingham had established itself as a centre of a thriving export trade in religious sculpture made from Nottingham Alabaster.
Cowes is a centre for sailing, hosting several racing regattas.
It also served as centre of learning and a storehouse of scholarly knowledge, training many of Aidan's young charges for a career in the priesthood.
The A303 cuts through the centre of the region from Salisbury to Honiton, where it merges with the A30 to continue past Exeter to the west of Cornwall.
The combination of SVO order and use of auxiliary verbs often creates clusters of two or more verbs at the centre of the sentence, such as he had hoped to try to open it.
Since the 15th century, Southeastern varieties centred around London, which has been the centre from which dialectal innovations have spread to other dialects.
The park's main visitor centre is located in Princetown and features exhibits about Dartmoor's history, culture and wildlife, as well as changing displays of local art.
King's students and staff can utilize Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust's fitness centre and swimming pool based within the Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals.
A local edition of the daily national freesheet Metro is distributed in the city centre every morning, although this only has a very small amount of local content.
The eastern third of the city centre contains the Victoria Shopping Centre, built in the 1970s on the site of the demolished Victoria Railway Station.
Although revolutionary for its time, the town centre is showing signs of age and in 2005 plans were revealed for a major regeneration to take place over the next decade.
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Nevertheless, after the conquest the Romans certainly developed the settlement and port, with its centre roughly where the shallow stream the Walbrook met the Thames.
The community became a trading centre based on cloth making and Wells is notable for its 17th century involvement in both the English Civil War and Monmouth Rebellion.
London is a major global centre of higher education teaching and research and has the largest concentration of higher education institutes in Europe.
Wells had been a centre for cloth making, however in the 16th and 17th centuries this diminished, but the city retained its important market focus.
There are also numerous parks administered by London's borough Councils, including Victoria Park in the East End and Battersea Park in the centre.
Powys roughly coincided with the territory of the Celtic Cornovii tribe whose civitas or administrative centre during the Roman period was at Viroconium.
To the west of the town, United Biscuits have their group technical centre on Sands Ind Estate, off the A4010, near the rugby ground of London Wasps.
In 2001, redevelopment of the HMS Vernon naval shore establishment began as a complex of retail outlets, clubs, pubs, and a large shopping centre known as Gunwharf Quays.
On the Saturday of the Godiva Festival, a carnival parade starts in the city centre and makes its way to War Memorial Park where the festival is held.
From Birmingham city centre, the A45 runs directly to the airport.
The town's local attractions include a zoo and a leisure centre.
Newcastle University was the first in the UK and the second in Europe to receive a licence to perform research on stem cells and is a leading centre for such research today.
Its distribution centre is at nearby Newton Aycliffe in County Durham.
The MetroCentre, the largest shopping centre in Europe, is in Dunston.
The Economy of Liverpool is one of the largest within the United Kingdom, sitting at the centre of one of the two core economies within the North West of England.
Hovertravel and Stagecoach run a bus service called the Hoverbus from the city centre to Southsea Hovercraft Terminal and The Hard Interchange, near the seafront.
The Latin term villa regia which Bede used of the site suggests an estate centre as the functional heart of a territory held in the King's demesne.
He also moved the centre of royal patronage and power to London.
After the 1660 restoration of the monarchy, Scotland regained its separate status and institutions, while the centre of political power remained in London.
Firebombing on this date led to severe damage to large areas of the city centre and to Coventry's historic cathedral, leaving only a shell and the spire.

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